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[rosiedoes]

Sceptics are such morons.

I cannot STAND people who think they're so smart that their opinion is clearly fact - especially when it comes to stuff I know a fuckload more about than they do.

Someone on little_details asked about the psychic bonds between twins, and kutsuwamushi told them, "If you don't want your story to contain any magic or supernatural phenomena, then no -- the second twin won't feel the pain of the first twin. That doesn't happen in the real world, although it's a popular topic for shows about the paranormal."

I promptly left just a few examples of anecdotes on a website for twins in which people who stand to gain absolutely nothing talk about their experiences - including instances where one twin has been injured and the other has developed bruises or a sympathy nosebleed.

Of course, some other wanker wades in with their, "People do it for attention/are hypochondriacs" argument, and the first person I responded to says, "There's no proof, therefore it's not real."

I'm sorry but NO. You cannot disprove something by absence of evidence. It doesn't work like that. And as someone who is psychic, gains nothing whatsoever from it, except perhaps the risk of ridicule, but has had proof of their 'skills' or whatever you want to call them, authenticated by people she has never met before and can never have known anything about, I can tell you categorically, that there are some things you just cannot explain. Not when you're the person they're happening to, the person witnessing them, or the person corroborating them.

I can't explain how I drew pictures of former residents of a house before I'd even stepped through the door, had precisely NO idea of the history of, and even inside found no images of (they were all in storage while the building was renovated). I have no idea how months before going - before I even knew the building existed or that I would ever go there - I managed to draw a picture of the building as it was a couple of hundred years before. I have no idea how I could name the previous residents of another building I'd never known existed. I have no idea how the man sitting next to me on the first day of my psychic development group could describe my living room, even though we'd never met - but I do know that it freaked him out so much he never showed up again.

I can't explain those things with normal science, therefore I have to assume that there's something else that we don't understand yet - rather than writing the whole thing off just because modern science doesn't have an answer. There are things we understand now that even decades ago people would have freaked out about. I pity the kind of idiots who are so closed minded that they 'know' something that cannot be disproved doesn't exist. Why would you close yourself off to that? Where is the harm in saying, "I don't know, but I don't believe"? Why does it have to be, "No, it doesn't exist because I haven't seen proof"?

Losers. I hope one day they spontaneously combust, which would be delightfully ironic, because they probably don't believe in that, either.

Comments

[jedi-iwakura.livejournal.com]

What. If it's so silly, why even comment in the first place?? PEOPLE.

[edgiko.livejournal.com]

Its funny how they rely on "logic" yet in logic is always harder to prove a negative statement.

[edgiko.livejournal.com]

PS: Your psychic power is better than mine. Empathy can suck ass. (Though I do have prophetic dream.)

[rosiedoes.livejournal.com]

I have prophetic dreams, too. It's not fun, is it? It's one of those things you'd rather not have, because I know that I live in fear of having those dreams. I don't want to know this stuff, or wake up in the middle of the night with graphic images of train or plane crashes that I'll end up seeing on the news.

[edgiko.livejournal.com]

I'm happy mine normally center around my life. Like I had a dream of meeting a guy that looked EXCALTY like Dan and he was from Wisconsin at Landmark. Sure enough, I meet Dan and Jay (Jay's from the midwest). There are some bad examples of that working (like I had a dream about a biking accident in biking class and sure enough someone breaks their wrist).

I just hope my "end of the world" dreams I get ever so often never come true. They are so fucking vivid and they all are almost exactly the same.

[rosiedoes.livejournal.com]

I've talked to people who are different ages to me, one of whom was a parapsychologist, who dream about the same landscape that I've had recurring dreams about.

And it's a really weird, bleak, concrete city scape that is like no place I've ever seen. With huge, monolithic concrete structures that aren't towerblocks and don't have windows or anything like that. Really distinctive things that I'd never told anyone until that point. It's really strange.

[edgiko.livejournal.com]

Interesting how I've never been on that dreamscape before yet I've written about it in something original. Oo

[rosiedoes.livejournal.com]

HIVE MIND.

[edgiko.livejournal.com]

I'm going to get spooky and say that me thinks it could be another world/dimension but we can only get there through a subconscious state.
I mean, if this is a landscape other people have dreams about..it could be possible.

[rosiedoes.livejournal.com]

I think that we (even Andy, the parapsy) were leaning to a similar concept. We already believe that multiple dimensions exist - that's accepted scientific theory - it wouldn't be such a stretch to imagine that.

[anjak-j.livejournal.com]

The irony is, I bet half of those people believe in God...though there is no scientific proof of the existence of any deity.

(Does not mention that scientifically proving God's existence would cause a paradox... *iz geek*)

People are free to quantify their experiences however they see fit IMHO. These people are just disrespectful morons.

[rosiedoes.livejournal.com]

Srsly. I hate people like that.

[slate-and-lead.livejournal.com]

That's slightly infuriating. Not only do psychic connections exist between twins, but some of them span some really far distances. Or at least mine does, considering my twin brother is dead.

[rosiedoes.livejournal.com]

*hugs* I'm sorry to hear that, hon.

But yeah. I haven't bothered to tell these people I'm psychic because I know what their reactions would be. I definitely believe that there has to be something to all these accounts. We say we have five senses, but in fact scientists now identify more than twenty, and animals have even more (think sharks, dolphins and bats). What's to say that this isn't some kind of devolved form of communication out distant ancestors used to remain in contact with their tribes or kin?

Modern humans are really, really arrogant.

[slate-and-lead.livejournal.com]

"Modern humans are really, really arrogant."

Very much so. It's aggravating a lot of the time. But I know it exists, so when it comes down to it, all those skeptics can go jump of a bridge or something.
:)

[rosiedoes.livejournal.com]

Hahaha. I think I'd like to see some kind of epic reveal first, where they're all proven wrong. XD

Also, I added you back, because I never did before. I don't tend to add people until they leave me comments and tell me who they are, so yeah. Hello!

[slate-and-lead.livejournal.com]

I noticed. Thank you! And hello back!
:)

[eruwenfuin.livejournal.com]

I'm waiting for a revolution of the psychics, to show all those arses they were wrong...

[untelling.livejournal.com]

I'm still waiting for my slight psychic abilities to prove themselves. I was with my sister at a music festival, and on the last night there, a name popped into my mind. I had never heard it before, nor did I know the exact nature of the person's importance. I just knew that he had something to do with my sister - maybe a future relationship or something. I told her about it on the way home the next day. I said, "Remember the name Thomas Mabry. If not Thomas Mabry, then something that sounds just like it."

At her orientation for college, one of the guys in the pre-med group she was in had ONE LETTER difference in his last name. Not only is he pre-med, as she is, but he's tall and dark, her ideal man, and plays in a band. A good match for her. I'm just waiting to see how it pans out in his relation to her future.

Reminds me a bit of Nostradamus' predictions about Hister and the extreme similarities to Hitler. Just kind of interesting. Probably will amount to nothing, but we'll see, I guess.

[rosiedoes.livejournal.com]

That's pretty cool, dude. I tend to think we all have some latent ability, it's just that we've suppressed it over the millennia.